The film screens again at 7 p.m. Oct. 3 at Upstate Films Rhinebeck. Tickets are $10 but are without Q&A and concert.

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Sonny Rollins has always done things his own way. At the height of his career he began practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City. He shunned piano for bass and drums. He embraced funk and R&B ahead of the rest of his genre.

Wednesday Rollins will help open the Woodstock Film Festival. Just another maverick move.

"He's probably the best jazz musician alive these days," says Meira Blaustein, director of the Woodstock Festival. And she's probably right - Rollins, a saxophonist, is regarded pretty highly for his groundbreaking and twisting sound. He's been honored by the Kennedy Center, and every year between 2006 and '09, he was named Jazz Artist of the Year in the Down Beat Readers Poll. While in his 70s.

Rollins is the subject of "Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes." The film by Dick Fontaine uses his 80th birthday celebration concert - at the Beacon Theatre in New York City - as a framing device to honor his life and legacy, which is as deep as it gets in music. He's the only living person to have played with John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker. That alone is worth a documentary.

Best yet, Rollins is coming to Woodstock. He'll be part of a Q&A with Fontaine - who's flying in from London to be part of the festival - to be held after the Wednesday night screening at the Woodstock Playhouse. After that, JD Allen III, one of jazz's rising young tenor saxophone players, will grace the stage to honor one of his heroes.

The Rollins concert continues the Woodstock Film Festival's trend of showcasing music legends on the first night. A few years ago it was John Lennon and "Lennon NYC." Last year the festival showcased a documentary about Americana music legend David Bromberg, followed by a Bromberg concert.

No disrespect to Bromberg or any past openers, but this might be the festival's coolest Wednesday night yet.